Can God bless them?

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May 4, 2013 at 12:01 AMMay 4, 2013 at 11:26 PM

“God bless you,” the president said to a Washington audience of abortion backers.

“God bless you,” the president said to a Washington audience of abortion backers.God bless you?The president is the commander-in-chief, but one has to wonder how he can invoke the Almighty in blessing those who shed innocent blood.God’s word — in every translation and version — makes clear that God hates hands that shed innocent blood (Proverbs 6:17). If the blood of an unborn child is not innocent blood, whose blood could possibly be innocent?President Barack Obama asked God’s blessing last week at a fund-raising event for Planned Parenthood, or more accurately, Planned Barrenhood.It was an historic occasion, the media informed us, because no previous president has appeared before this group.Of course, everything Mr. Obama does is historic, the media keeps reminding us. Why the president had to speak at a fund-raiser for Planned Barrenhood is another question. After all, what is his administration but a fund-raiser for this machine that kills unborn children and hurts women? He told Speaker Boehner that his suggested cuts to Planned Barrenhood funding were dead on arrival. The president would rather shut down the entire government than let this machine lose a single dollar. In their annual report for 2011, these traffickers in abortion admit to having killed 334,000 unborn children. The 334,000 lives taken are part of a national toll of 55,000,000 since Roe v. Wade legalized abortion-on-demand in 1973. Still, those lives snuffed out are not enough for President Obama or the abortionists. He demands that Catholic hospitals, all religious and para-church institutions, and all other conscientious objectors join him and his Party of Death in paying for drugs that end the lives of the unborn. His contribution to “pro-choice” ideology is that once having chosen Obama, we have no choice but to follow his policies — to their logical extreme.And extreme they are. In Illinois, he made sure that children born alive were not protected if the first attempt on their lives had failed. Though the Fourteenth Amendment clearly states that all persons born in the United States are citizens of the United States and of the states where they reside, those unfortunate enough to be born in a killing center have no such rights. As a state senator, Barack Obama made sure that the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections were stripped away from these newborns. In his view, the right to choose abortion means the right to choose an effective abortion. A dead baby is what was paid for, after all. As president, it is Mr. Obama’s duty to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” Yet, his administration has ignored the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. Because one of Nidal Hasan’s victims was a pregnant soldier named Francheska Velez, and because Hasan’s shootings took place at Fort Hood, the law clearly applies. “My baby! My baby!” were Francheska Velez’s last words. She wanted that child, but even that was not enough for the Obama administration to honor her last wish. And they talk about a war on women. The numbers are themselves numbing. Fifty-five million is equal to the population of California and New York. If jihadists had managed to destroy those two great states, we would surely recognize the grievous wound for what it is. Ronald Reagan, in his 1986 State of the Union Address, said abortion was a wound in America’s soul. Recently, the Naval Academy staged a dress parade. The entire Brigade of Midshipmen passed in review before a Member of Congress. There are two regiments, six battalions, and thirty companies of Midshipmen. Black, Hispanic, Asian, white, male and female, they hail from all 50 states, the territories and even 31 foreign countries. Under a crystalline blue sky these vibrant young people marched briskly past the reviewing stands. If President Obama had taken the review, he would have been honored with a 21-gun salute.As it was, our distinguished reviewing officer, Congressman Rob Wittman, R-Va., received a 19-gun salute. Marching by, eight abreast, it took twelve minutes, forty-eight seconds for the entire Brigade, nearly three thousand, to pass in review.It would be good for President Obama to see such a military review. It might give him pause. For that is the number of human lives snuffed out daily by the people to whom he spoke last week. They are the ones — those shedders of innocent blood — that he asked God to bless.God help us.